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...High oil prices and an overstretched U.S. military combine to lessen the West's capacity to react. So too, Iran's leaders think, does Iran's influence with the Shi'ite majority in Iraq and the newly elected Hamas leaders in the Palestinian territories. Getting loud and ugly about Israel earns Iran credibility and support in the Muslim world. And the regime may have decided that thumbing its nose at the nonproliferation treaty and at IAEA inspections is worth the international disapprobation, gambling that its extensive commercial ties with Russia and China will insulate it from punitive Security Council measures...
...Stunned opposition parties anticipating a long and loud campaign against Gandhi tried to claim they forced her hand. But their crowing sounded hollow, and hypocritical: only one of 43 other MPs accused of breaking the same rules on conflict of interest agreed to follow Gandhi's example and also step down. "Once again she's shown she is the one person to whom power genuinely does not mean anything," said Hindustan Times editorial director Vir Sanghvi. "Whatever authority she has derives from that morality...
...only 12 of his colleagues (nearly all among the most liberal members of the Senate) in opposing Condi Rice's nomination for Secretary of State and then joined 21 other Democrats in voting against John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination. John McCain has long been concerned about spending, but his loud rhetoric in recent weeks about cutting pork-barrel projects will help please conservatives worried that he is too moderate. Appealing to that same group, Virginia Republican George Allen has proposed to stop the paychecks for members of Congress if they don't finish spending bills by a specific target date...
That produced a fascinating musical fusion, but it didn't allay the doubts that most of the creators had, straight through rehearsals, about their quest and their sanity. Says set and costume designer Rob Howell: "Every other day one of us was wondering out loud, 'What. Are. We. Doing...
When a plainclothes police detective appeared at her DeWolfe dorm room on a Friday night asking to enter in search of loud music, Cat P. Walleck ’06 was suspicious. There clearly was no noise coming from her room, she says, and she was reluctant to let him in.“He saw that I was hesitating, and said, ‘Oh, my supervisor is down the hallway,’” Walleck says. “Eventually, I let him come in.”The officer entered her common room, looked around...